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Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C., Sept. 30, 1985 -Today- Today is Monday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 1985. There are 92 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: Thirty years ago, on Sept.

30, 1955, actor James Dean, star of the films Without a "East of Eden" and "Giant," was killed in the collision of his sports car with another automobile near Cholame, Calif. He was 24. On this date: In 1630, the first execution in America took place as John Billington was hanged in Plymouth, for fatally shooting John Newcomin. In 1777, the Congress of the United States, forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces, moved to York, Pa. In 1791, Mozart's opera "'The Magic Flute" had its premiere in Vienna.

In 1846, Dr. William Morton of Charleston, used an experimental anesthetic, ether, for the first time on one of his patients. In 1927, Babe Ruth hit his 60th homer of the season to break his own major league record. The blow came off Washington's Tom Zachary in New York's Yankee Stadium. In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders ended the Munich Conference with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.

In 1946, an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. In 1954, the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus, was commissioned by the Navy at Groton, Conn. In 1962, James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi. Ten years ago: Spanish Premier Carlos Arias Navarro denounced international protests over the execution of five terrorists and called on the Spanish people to unite behind the government. Five years ago: Iran's spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, rejected a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, saying war between the two countries would continue "to the end." One year ago: Italian police continued their round-up of organized crime suspects, described as one of the largest operations of its kind ever conducted.

Today's birthdays: Former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox is 70. Actress Deborah Kerr is 64. Actress Angie Dickinson is 53. Singer Johnny Mathis is 50.

Sen. James Sasser, is 49. Singer Marilyn McCoo is 42. Former White House Press Secretary Jody Powell is 42. Thought for today: "Art for art's sake is an empty phrase.

Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for." George Sand, French author (1804-1876). Weather Greenwood The sun rose today at 7:22, will set at 7:19 and will rise Tuesday at 7:23. Saturday's high was 76 (24 C) and the low was 42 (6 C), which broke the record of 43 set in 1947. Sunday's high was 78 (26 C) and the low was 43 (6 C). The temperature at 7 a.m.

today was 55 (13 C). There was no precipitation recorded during the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today. Total precipitation for the month is a .36 inch (.91 cm) and for the year, 28.34 inches (71.98 cm). Average rainfall for September is 3.98 inches (10.11 cm).

Average rainfall through September is 37.26 inches (94.64 cm.) South Carolina By The Associated Press Mountains: Partly cloudy tonight with a low near 60. Winds will be light and easterly. Partly cloudy Tuesday with a 30 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms and a highs in the lower 70s. Foothills, Piedmont (including Greenwood): Partly cloudy tonight with a low in the lower 60s. Winds will be easterly at 5 to 10 mph.

Partly cloudy Tuesday with a 30 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms and a highs in the middle 70s. Midlands: Partly cloudy tonight with a low in the lower 60s. Winds will be easterly at 5 to 10 mph. Partly cloudy Tuesday with a high in the lower 80s. North Coast: Partly cloudy tonight with a low in the middle 60s.

Winds will be easterly at 5 to 10 mph. Partly cloudy Tuesday with a highs in the middle 80s. On the beaches: Partly cloudy Tuesday. South Coast: Partly cloudy tonight with a low from the middle 60s inland to near 70 on the beaches. Winds will be easterly at 5 to 10 mph.

Partly cloudy Tuesday with a high in the middle 80s. On the beaches: Partly cloudy Tuesday. Wednesday through Friday: Partly cloudy and mild with scattered showers in the northwest. Afternoon temperatures in the low to mid 80s. Early morning lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.

Georgia Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers southeast today, mostly sunny elsewhere. Highs mid-70s mountains to mid-80s south. Increasing cloudiness tonight with scattered showers northwest and extreme southeast. Lows in the upper 50 mountains to near 70 coast. Mostly cloudy Tuesday with rain and a few thundershowers likely northwest and scattered thundershowers south.

Highs in the mid-70s north to low 80s south. North Carolina Mostly sunny today with highs in the 70s except 80s coastal sections. Generally fair tonight with lows ranging from the upper 40s mountains to the mid 60s southeast coast. Increasing cloudiness Tuesday except mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the mountains and foothills. Highs Tuesday will range from the upper 60s northern mountains to the mid 80s southeast coast.

Carolinas By The Associated Press 80 49 0.00 City HI Low Prep Greensboro, cir 81 0.00 76 60 0.00 Greer, clr 75 0.00 70 41 fog 75 0.00 Augusta, fog 83 57 0.00 85 0.00 75 66 0 62 0.00 Charlotte, clr 76 51 0.00 (Continued from page 1) available locally and statewide, Taber said. Two conferences include "Parenting in a Chemical Environment" held recently in Columbia and a program under way at Piedmont Tech on With Your Children About Al. This council will help in (Continued from page 1) 1 no matter what Congress does: Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, South Dakota and Oregon. More certain is an increase in the federal excise tax on liquor at midnight tonight. Although liquor sales, spurred by discounts and rebates, were brisk in some areas of the nation, industry officials said most Americans apparently did not rush to avoid the 19 percent federal excise tax increase.

Passed by Congress as part of Deaths and EMORY BURTON IVA Emory "Goss" Burton, 82, of Route 1, husband of Mrs. Olivia Copeland Burton, died Saturday at Anderson Memorial Hospital. Born in Iva, whe was son of the late William and Emma Hall Burton. 'He was a member of the First Baptist Church. He received his education from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and Shenandoah College, then located in Dayton, Va.

He held various positions as a teacher and principal of elementary schools in Gaffney. Later he made his home in Iva, where he worked as a farmer. He served as a choir director and member, church clerk, deacon and Sunday School teacher. Surviving in addition to his wife; are three sons, Roger Burton of Greenwood, Gwinn Burton of Jacksonville, Fla. and William Burton of Washington; three daughters, Amy Burton and Mrs.

Margaret Gentry, both of Iva and Mrs. Betty Johnson Calhoun a brother, Hubbard W. Burton' of Iva; three sisters, Mrs. Selma Manning and Ruby Ussery, both of Iva and Mrs. Marie Kelly of Anderson; and six grandchildren.

Services were at p.m. today at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Laughter and the Rev. Steve Jacks officiating. Burial will be in Iva City Cemetery.

The family is at the home. The McDougald Funeral Home was in charge. M. BLACK PROSPERITY Javas M. Black, 95, a retired school administrator, died Sunday.

Born in Saluda County, he was a son of the late L. and Louisa Derrick Black. He was an Army veteran of World War I and was a very active member of Corinth Lutheran Church, where he had served on the council for had ap; proximately 50 years. He taught at Orangeburg, Saluda, Newberry and Hampton counties and was also a retired farmer and merchant. He was a member of the South Carolina and National Retired Teachers associations, the Saluda American Legion, the Higgins Grange and a charter member and past director of the Saluda County Farm Bureau.

He was of the Farm Bureau Extinguished Service Award in 1982. He was a 1913 graduate of Newberry College and did graduate work at the University of Iowa, Peabody College, Columbia University and the University of South Carolina. He was a member of the Newberry College Indian Club. Surviving are a daughter, James E. (Fairey) Prosperity; a sister, Mrs.

Essie Singley of Prosperity; a granddaughter; and great- grandchildren. Services will be at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Corinth Lutheran Church. The family will recieve friends from 7:30 to 8:30 tonight at Whitaker Funeral Home. WILLIAM L.

POSS COLBERT, Ga. William Leon Poss, 44, of Route 1, died Saturday in Elbert County Hospital after a brief illness. Born in Madison County, he son Cornelia Crowe Waller and the late William Weldon Poss. He was a deputy sherriff of Madison and a former chief of police of Colbert. He was a past master of the Eureka Lodge No.

47 of Ninety Six, S.C. and a member of Meadow Baptist Church. Surviving in addition to his mother and stepfather of Washington; are two daughters, Mrs. Cynthia Welch of Colbert and (Continued graduating class took the SAT an accurate reflection of the 47 plans to go on to junior or senior The percentage of students wood almost on the state average the SAT in 1985, he added. Information released by the shows that a student's choice of bearing on SAT performance, struction Michael McKenzie said.

the math section of the tionships between level of instruction score: course algebra I II and geometry, mean score and geometry, mean score 481.4; 577.6." The verbal mean scores for pattern, McKenzie said. Mean dents who followed a non-college riculum to 405.5 for those in college 450.2 for students who took college sition. Advanced Placement (AP) score of 519.7. "Knowing that these relationships students even in junior high to make course choices." McKenzie said. 11th grade, become college prep, others.

course selections is not Courses are self-selected by the fore our impact is somewhat limited improving SAT performance." To help improve scores, the evening SAT study sessions twice skills course. GHS is participating in a improving SAT scores, McKenzie materials we have been given by skills students need to have for Both Dover and McKenzie said they try to use SAT results as a district overall. SAT does not reflect McKenzie said. "The other 53 percent not the same aspiration to go to Mrs. Amanda Watson of Anchorage, Alaska; two brothers, Kenneth Poss of Danielsville and Benny Paul Poss of Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire; a stepbrother, Sonny Waller of Washington; two sisters, Mrs.

Barbara Booth of Danielsville and Mrs. Elaine Stephenson of Hull; and two grandchildren. Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Meadow Baptist Church with the Rev. Randy Harrison and the Rev.

Eugene Pettyjohn officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at Browns Funeral Home of Danielsville, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight and will be placed in the church at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. The family is at the home of Kenneth Poss.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Meadow Baptist Church building fund. SAMMY DAVIS SALUDA Sammy "Dock" Davis, 62, widow of Mrs. Lula Howard Davis, died Saturday. Born in Saluda County, he was a son of the late Mike and Ollie Bosket Davis. He was, a member and deacon of Lockhart Baptist Church and was president of the.

Shiloh Usher Board Union. He was a veteran and a retired ployee of the Southern Brick Yard Co. in Ninety Six. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Mary A.

Guy of Laurelton, N.Y., Miss Helen R. Davis and Mrs. Loretta Mobley, both of St. Albans, N.Y. and Mrs.

Susie B. Redd and Mrs. Deloris Smith, both of Saluda; three brothers, Charlie, Johnny and Jimmy Davis, all of Corona, N.Y.; a sister, Mrs. Annie L. David of Saluda; and grandchildren.

announced Services will be by Butler and Son Funeral Home. MRS. ALLIE JACKS MOUNTVILLE Mrs. Allie Belle Fuller Jacks, 89, widow of Issac Errett Jacks, died Saturday. Born in Laurens County, she was a daughter of the late Samuel W.

and Bessie Benjamin Fuller. She was a member of Lisbon Presbyterian Church. Surviving are four sons, William Charles D. and Alfred B. Jacks, all of Mountville and George M.

Jacks of Lynchburg, two daughters, Mrs. Samuel (Sara) Blackmon of Mountville and Mrs. Neal (Doris) Tingle of Tigerville; two sisters, Mrs. Ladelle Blackstock of Columbia and Mrs. Christina Walker of Laurens; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren.

Services were at 3 p.m. Sunday at Lisbon Presbyterian Church. Kennedy Mortuary was in charge. THOMAS McCURRY MONCKS CORNER Thomas Ulas McCurry, 59, of Route 7, Box 32, husband of Mrs. Daisy Anthony McCurry, died Sunday at his home.

Born in Abbeville, he was a son of Mrs. Nellie Holmes McCurry and the late Compton McCurry. He was a mason, a retired civil service employee and chairman of the deacon board of First Baptist Church of Moncks Corner. He was in the Navy for 22 years, serving as Aviation Boats Mate Chief. Surviving in addition to his wife; his mother of Abbeville; are two brothers, Lucius T.

McCurry of Abbeville and Olin J. McCurry of Summerville. Services will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church of Moncks Corner with the Rev. Norman Gillespie and the Rev.

Frank Ling officiating. Burial will in St. John's Baptist Church Cem- from page 1) last year. He said, "'This figure i is percent of the class who reported college." taking the test also places Greenof 49 percent of seniors taking College Board on a statewide basis high school courses has a definite Assistant Superintendent for In- test, we see the following relacompleted and mean SAT and II, mean score 372.2; algebra 426; algebra II, trigonometry all above courses and calculus, South Carolina show a similar scores range from 336.5 for stupreparatory English curprep English curriculum to prep and advanced compoEnglish students had a mean exist, we try to encourage serious decisions about their "'You can't change your mind in and expect to do as well as something we can dictate. parents and the student.

Therein this particular aspect of district offers after school and yearly and a high school study voluntary state program aimed at said. "'The SAT improvement the state address the kinds of thise test." people should use caution when means of evaluating a school or every senior in the district," may have equal ability but college." etery, Pinopolis. The body is at Russell's Funeral Chapel, where the family will receive friends after 6 tonight. The family is at the home. YOUNGBLOOD, HILL NEWBERRY Youngblood Hill, 68, died Monday, Sept.

23. Born in Newberry County, he was a son of the late Archie and Lucille Jackson Hill. He was a veteran of World War II. Surviving are three sons, Freddie and Archie Hill, both of Saluda and Johnny Hill of Clinton; two daughters, Mrs. Virginia H.

Metts of Newberry and Mrs. Jessie H. Lyles of Spartanburg; two brothers, Joseph P. of Newberry and Willie R. Hill of Clinton; three sisters, Mrs.

Eunice Stephens of Bronx, N.Y., Mrs. Jessie Thomas of Sacremento, Calif. and Mrs. Lucille Curry of Newberry; grandchildren; and Services were at 2 p.m. Sunday at Vaughnville Baptist Church in Chappells.

Wilson Funeral Home was in charge. MRS. EVELYN OLDS ABBEVILLE Mrs. Evelyn Sutherland Olds, 70, of Route 4, Anderson Highway, widow of Leonard D. Olds, died Sunday at Abbeville County Memorial Hospital.

Born in Abbeville County, she was a daughter of the late William Claude and Florence Able Southerland. She was a retired employee of Abbeville Manufacturing Co. and a member of Upper Long Cane Presbyterian Church. Marion Surviving are. (Nell) a sister, Camp Mrs.

of Snellville, and two brothers, James C. and Samuel Thomas Southerland, both of Abbeville. Services were at 4 p.m. today at Long Cane Presbyterian Church with Dr. Howard Whitehurst and the Rev.

W.W. Thrower officiating. Burial will be in Long Cane Cemetery. The body is at Harris Funeral Home. The family is at the home of a brother, James C.

Sutherland, Route 4, Anderson Highway. MRS. EULA M. NORMAN Services for Mrs. Eula Mosley Norman will be at 3 p.m.

Tuesday at Cross Roads Baptist Church with the Rev. Fred W. Gist officiating, assisted by the Rev. Bernard' White. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be the deacons of the church. Honorary escort will be the deaconesses the church. The body will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The family will receive friends at the home, Route 11, West Alexander Ext.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Cross Roads Baptist Church buiding fund, Highway 10, Bradley, S.C., 29819. Percival-Tompkins Service is in charge. HOYT L. FULMER SR. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.

Hoyt Leslie Fulmer 90, husband of Mrs. Mattie Gregory Fulmer, died Saturday. Born in Saluda County, S.C., he was a son of the late Patrick L. and Emma a Crouch Fulmer. He was a former resident of Florence, S.C., where he was a retired manager with Southern State Supply Co.

He was a 32nd Mason, a member of the Shriners Elks Lions clubs of Columbia, S.C. and was a Lutheran. Surviving in addition to his wife; are a son, Hoyt L. Fulmer of Columbia: two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Hedrick of Raleigh, N.C.

and Mrs. Rosemary Mayor of Clarksville; a brother, Patrick L. Fulmer of Columbia; grandchildren; and great- -grandchildren. Services will be announced by Dunbar Funeral Home, Gervais Street Chapel. (Continued from page i) McDonald got some local church members to open up the hall and they located the fire underneath the building.

The Coronaca Volunteer Fire Department was called out and responded with two pumpers and a unit. Before the help arrived, though, McDonald said, the gas was shut off to the hall and the flames died down considerably. When the fire was completely out, it was determined that it had. been caused by a short in a water heater. The short had burned a hole in a gas line, McDonald said, and the fire was in the process of getting big.

The church's luck held, though, that the short also burned a hole in a waterline, which kept the ground wet under the church and slowed the fire's spreading. The floor of the social hall was burned and few joists were charmed, 'but there was no major damage to the building, McDonald said. There was no smoke or fire damage at all to the church itself. If it hadn't been for the few lucky turns, things could have been much different. Footstone found A granite footstone, with the engraving, Clyde; Jan.

2, 1883; 18, 1960, was found on Spring Valley with Road Friday. yone information about where it the tombstone is from or belongs can contact the Greenwood County Sheriff's Department. MAUDE T. ADAMS Maude Thompson Adams, 67, of 212. Andrews widow of John B.

Adams, died Sunday at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in Hartwell, she was a daughter of the late Luther T. and Carrie Adams Thompson. She was retired from Greenwood Mills, where she was a member of the Quarter Century Club. She was a member of Westside Baptist church, the Mothers Club No.

1 and the Emergency Preparedness Auxiliary of Greenwood. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Reba Cameron, with whom she made her, home Alabama Ave. Mrs. Willie Sowell of Greenwood; two sisters, Mrs.

Loudell Evans of Greenwood and Mrs. Johnnie Mae Carruth of Hartwell, a brother, Luther Thompson Jr. of Hartwell, four grandchildren; and four Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Harley Funeral Home with the Rev. Bobby Davis officiating.

Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Jimmy, Dean, Ed and Larry Carruth, Ray Thompson, Frank Slater, Hugh Teasly and Ray Lewis. The body is at the funeral home, where the family will recieve friends from 7 to 9 tonight. The family is at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Reba Cameron.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Greenwood. JOSEPH BROWN Joseph Brown, 76, of 307 Lindsey husband of Eula Goode Brown, died Sunday at his home. Born in Tignall, March 2, 1909, he was a son of the late William and Annie White Brown. He attended Macedonia Baptist Church and later joined an Augusta, Ga. Catholic Church.

Before moving from Long Island, N.Y., he was employed as a welder for the Hunting Machine Shop of Telephonic Corp. He is survivied by his wife of the home. Services will be annouced by Percival-Tompkins Service. City log VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS The following was taken from reports of the Greenwood County Volunteer Fire Departments: Promised Land Fire Department responded to an auto fire on Briarwood Road Monday. Coronaca Fire Department responded to a fire at Bethlehem United Methodist Church Sunday.

POLICE DEPARTMENT The following was taken from reports of the Greenwood Police Department: A bomb threat call to Northside Junior High was traced to one of the school's students Friday. A petition has been signed and the case transferred to Family Court. Two juveniles were arrested Sunday and charged with burning a building, in connection with a garage fire on Wells Street Saturday. A windshield was reported broken out of a car on Deans Alley Saturday. A wallet containing $13 in cash was reported stolen from a man at a Roseland Avenue business Saturday.

A window was broken at a Roseland Avenue business Sunday and a box. of crackers and peanuts taken. Damage is estimated at $75 A radio and other items totaling $151 were reported taken from a South Bethune home Sunday. SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT The following was taken from reports of the Greenwood County Sheriff's Department: A home on Route 3, Ninety Six, was broken into Monday and $467 worth of clothes taken. A window was reported pryed open and a television and tools valued at $923 taken from a Frazier Road home Sunday.

A Ninety Six women was taken to Self Memorial Hospital after reportedly accidentally shooting herself in the foot with a .22 caliber pistol Sunday. A satellite dish convertor valued at $377 was reported stolen from a Montague Avenue business Saturday. A possible parent abduction of a reported Saturday. A child was reportedly taken from her grandmother on Route 7 by two white males. They fled the scene in a burgundy car.

THE INDEX-JOURNAL U.S.P.S. 261-540 nating fundraisers and membership drives, Susie Goodwin, vice president, said. "It is important for everyone to join the PTA or PTO at their school." Council officers include Pat Webb, corresponding secretary; Twiler Beverly, recording secretary; Howard Bouknight, treasurer and Karen Tannenbaum, liason to administration. the 1984 Deficit Reduction Act, the tax applies only to distilled spirits, not beer or wine. It will make a gallon of 100-proof liquor cost $2 more, 90-proof $1.80 more and 80- proof $1.60 more.

After the tax increase, liquor will be one of the highest taxed consumer products, with an average of 19.9 percent of the purchase price going to state and local governments and 28.5 percent to the federal government, she said. The tax would not apply to wine or beer. Greenwood Journal. established Aug. 1, 1894; Greenwood Index established Nov.

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